Like the previous
page, this one also starts and ends in basically the same way as it did originally,
but the middle part is different.

Before this
remaster, Sonic and Davis never really had a formal first meeting
with one another. They did have at least one brief encounter in page
#122 and another encounter much later in pages #497 and #498, but
never a proper first encounter where Davis could introduce himself
and give an actual villain's speech. (Yes, spoilers: General Davis
is a straight-up villain, not just a misguided character who needs a
chance at redemption.) So I took this page's remaster as an
opportunity to fix that.

I also wanted to
use this story to show how much Sonic still resents GUN after their
treatment of him in the past, and to build upon that with their
treatment of Blaze here. I do use GUN throughout Eon's World as a
way of exploring and expressing my own feelings on the military, and
as a way of highlighting all the good a military can do vs. all the
horrors it usually ends up doing.

Finally, this is
basically Blaze's personal journey as a character coming to its
conclusion, having now learned the value of friendship. Sure, I
haven't even tried to follow the plot of Sonic Rush, but what
Sonic comic, official or fan-made, has? (Actually, I'll bet
there's a fan comic somewhere that has.) Instead, I've focused more
on Blaze's personal journey and built a story around that that fits
Eon's World. I'm pretty heckin' proud of it, too.